Exercise Southern Katipo
Southern Katipo is a multinational military training exercise conducted in New Zealand. The exercise is designed to improve participating forces' combat training, readiness and interoperability as part of a Joint Inter-Agency Task Force (JIATF). The combined JIATF include forces from Australia, Canada, France, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Tonga and the U.S. Marine Corps and Army. Training includes shipboard familiarization, rehearsals with timing and ship-to-shore connectors,... read more
Southern Katipo is a multinational military training exercise conducted in New Zealand. The exercise is designed to improve participating forces' combat training, readiness and interoperability as part of a Joint Inter-Agency Task Force (JIATF). The combined JIATF include forces from Australia, Canada, France, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Tonga and the U.S. Marine Corps and Army. Training includes shipboard familiarization, rehearsals with timing and ship-to-shore connectors, deliberate planning, rapid response planning, an amphibious offload, seizure of multiple objectives ashore and reconstitution. Southern Katipo is a realistic and challenging exercise that brings service members closer and improves both nations' ability to work bilaterally and multilaterally, and prepares them to be poised to provide regional and global security. show less